Interlude

pp. 553-561

in: William Richardson, Heidegger, The Hague, Nijhoff, 1963

Abstract

The way is long. Let us rest a while. We deal now with two minor pieces that have, to be sure, their value, but give us a chance to relax. The first bears the title "From the Experience of Thought."¹ It is a series of epigrams, poetic in style, and, dating from 1947, adopts a curious format: the left-hand side of the page carries a single line of nature-description (sample: "When the early morning light grows silently over the mountains…")² and the right side four epigrams. One finds it difficult to see a connection between individual lines of description and the corresponding epigrammatic groups, so it seems that one must seek a significance in the structure of the whole.